Society for Scientific Exploration Annual Meeting

25-28 June 2008, Boulder, Colorado

Presentation Title: "Quantum Mechanics, Remote Viewing, and Time: Wheeler's Delayed-Choice Experiment in a Macro Environment"

Abstract: Physicists have long debated the nature of physical reality. Wheeler's delayed-choice experiment has been a focal point of this debate since it demonstrates that observation can influence the behavior of quantum phenomena backward in time. That is, prior to the time at which a decision is made regarding whether or not to observe a quantum phenomenon, the phenomenon's behavior is influenced such that it is in correspondence with the decision. Remote-viewing experiments have been conducted at The Farsight Institute that parallel Wheeler’s delayed-choice setup. In these experiments, remote-viewing sessions were conducted in 13 repeated public demonstrations of remote viewing using full scientific controls over a period of six months. Targets were chosen by a respected outside tasker (a university professor who had no access of any kind to the remote-viewing data) one to two weeks after the remote-viewing sessions were conducted and the results made publicly available in encrypted format. Passwords to de-encrypt the remote-viewing data were made available online to the public only after the tasker announced the target for each experiment. Thus, the decision as to what target was to be used for each of the remote-viewing experiments was made significantly after the times at which the remote-viewing sessions were conducted. While precognition is a frequently studied aspect of psi phenomena, this repeated set of public experiments allowed for the collection of a sizable body of data for each individual target using lengthy and structured data-collection procedures under generally optimal viewing and experimental conditions. This allows for a thorough objective and statistical comparison of target and remote-viewing data sets. The results of this set of experiments offer strong support that a quantum mechanism is mediating the remote-viewing experience, since no classical mechanism is known to be capable of replicating the phenomenon. This essay offers a mathematical explanation for this process that is based on quantum potential, thereby asserting a formal linkage between the precognitive remote-viewing experience and Wheeler’s delayed-choice experiment.